The point is not that refox decompiles VFP apps - its that the maker claims that if you buy his product it will protect you from his product. How is this not extorsion? Its like if a few mafia members come up to you saying if you give them $400 they'll protect your biz from catching on fire - but the truth is the $400 is to protect your from them! THIS IS EXTORSION. Now if I goto a 3rd party - say an insurance company - and give them $400 - that's not extorsion because they're not gonna be the ones that burn down my biz if they dont get their $400.
Like I said - I dont have an issue with refox being able to decompile my apps - my problem is that the makers try to extort you into buying it by saying if you own it then you can protect yourself from it - hense the existance of the hack.

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>imo I dont really buy into this whole Refox extortion angle at all. Look at it like this; lets assume a world where Refox does not exist at all. Is your VFP app source code safe from crackers now? No. Will you need to buy third party tools if you want to protect your code? Yes. What's the down side of this "no Refox" world? There will be no tool to help you in those cases where source code has been genuinely lost. How many times has someone posted a request for help to recover lost code here in the UT? So by having no Refox you gain nothing and lose something. (No, I do not own Refox)
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>The problem is not Refox at all. This endless whining about getting a free "no-refox-decompile" thing is useless. In fact in might even be less than useless becuase of the false sense of security it would give developers.
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>>I think the problem here is that if you do NOT own refox, you can't protect your application from decompiled unless you buy refox. Doesn't matter if it's a hacked version of refox or not, does it?
>>So..you must but refox to protect yourself from refox. The reason for the hack's existance is to elimate the extorsion aspect of the product. No point in buying something to protect yourself from something if it doesn't really protect you..riiiight?
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